Daunting Dates
The Declaration of Independence was signed on this date (Day, Month, and Year).
What is July 4th, 1776?
This Founding Father was a major writer and wrote 51 Federalist papers to defend the United States Constitution, often writing under the name of Publius.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What are the rights of religion, free speech, press, assembly, and petition?
This may not have occurred during the founding period, but in 1893, the Supreme Court used its power to decide this about tomatoes.
What is that they would be counted as a vegetable?
The justices noted that vegetables are usually served at dinner in, with, or after, the soup, fish, or meats, whereas fruits are generally served as a dessert. Because of this everyday use, the Court deemed it appropriate to classify tomatoes as vegetables for trade and taxation purposes.
The Constitution was ratified in this year.
What is 1788?
This man must have wanted King George III to know how he felt because he signed his name the largest on the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
Though seemingly gruesome, Americans do not have the right to have appendages of bruins, but instead are given this right in the 2nd Amendment.
What is the right to bear arms?
By the year 1800, the United States had grown to this many states, with many more to come!
What is 16 States?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This Founding Father died on April 17, 1790. His daughter asked him to change positions on his bed to improve his breathing and his last words were: “A dying man can do nothing easy.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This is the total number of Amendments that the U.S Constitution has.
What is 27?
Thomas Jefferson had these animals as pets at the White House while he was president.
What are two bear cubs?
He had them for two months in a cage in one of the gardens after an explorer sent them to him.
In this year, colonists dressed up as native americans and tossed tea overboard British East India Company ships in the Boston Harbor.
What is 1773?
This Founding Father had his birthday changed when Great Britain switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, he became a year younger! His original birthday was Feb. 11th 1731 and changed to Feb. 22nd, 1732.
This Amendment prohibited the sale, transportation, and manufacture of intoxicating liquids. It is also the only amendment to ever have been repealed.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Although not typically grouped as a "Founding Father", he was crucial in getting France to join the colonists' side during the Revolutionary War and named his only son after George Washington.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
British Soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 colonists, in this year. This event, known as the Boston Massacre, was used as a reference when historians point to factors that contributed to revolution.
What is 1770?
These two Founding Fathers and Presidents died on the same day, July 4th 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Who are Thomas Jefferson and John Adams?
The U.S. Constitution includes this many amendments that specifically expand or protect voting rights.
What is four amendments?
The Fifteenth Amendment says a male citizen of any race can vote. The Nineteenth Amendment says both women and men can vote. The Twenty-fourth Amendment says no one has to pay to vote. And the Twenty-sixth Amendment says citizens 18 and older can vote.
There was almost a different 14th state; this territory split off from North Carolina and petitioned for statehood in 1784. Due to internal divisions and outside pressure, it collapsed in 1789.
What is the state of Franklin?